{"id":162016,"date":"2026-03-13T01:18:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/162016\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:18:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:18:53","slug":"brooklyn-nets-shut-down-dayron-sharpe-for-season-after-thumb-tear-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/162016\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets shut down Day\u2019Ron Sharpe for season after thumb tear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Brooklyn Nets have shut down Day\u2019Ron Sharpe, their 24-year-old back-up center, after he was diagnosed with a tear of his left thumb ligament, the team announced shortly before Thursday\u2019s game with the Atlanta Hawks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Nets did not initially state how Sharpe had injured his thumb or when but later Jordi Fernandez said the thumb had been bothering Sharpe all season and believed the injury may have occurred vs. the Grizzlies Monday. Indeed, Sharpe has been wearing a brace on his left thumb recently. Sharpe has become one of the NBA\u2019s top back-ups and recently became the top offensive rebounder by percentage in NBA history (200 games or more.)<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He\u2019s the second Nets player in the last two days to get shut down. It was announced Wednesday that Egor D\u00ebmin, who has been dealing with plantar fasciitis in his left heel since his pre-draft workouts a year ago, will also sit for Brooklyn\u2019s final 16 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The decision also leaves the Nets short, literally and figuratively, at the 5 with only one natural center, Nic Claxton, although 6\u201911\u201d Danny Wolf, more of a forward, is likely to fill in Thursday night. On Monday, the Nets did not renew 7-footer Grant Nelson\u2019s 10-day contract; though Nelson profiles as somewhat of a tweener long-term, he certainly would give Brooklyn more size up front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">At the moment, Brooklyn is a half-game out of third place in the lottery standings and two games out of the worst record in the NBA. The decision to shut down two rotation players \u2014 particularly Sharpe \u2014 could certainly affect their ping-pong ball fortunes going forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">To this point in the season, Sharpe has appeared in 62 games for Brooklyn, the most of any Net. The team is also nearly seven points per 100 possessions better with Sharpe on the floor, also a team-best. This continues a three-year long trend with the bruising back-up big; since the beginning of the 2023-24 season, the Nets have a nearly even -0.09 net rating with Sharpe on the floor in 2,990 minutes, and a sad -8.54 net rating in the 8,062 minutes he has been sitting on the bench, per PBP Stats<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As we\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netsdaily.com\/nets-analysis\/104435\/opinion-its-time-for-the-brooklyn-nets-to-reward-dayron-sharpe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:noted;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;noted&quot;}\" class=\"link \">noted<\/a>, on\/off data isn\u2019t the be-all end-all, there\u2019s some wonky 3-point numbers involved, and Sharpe is no perfect center. Still, the UNC product has made a name for himself as one of the most effective reserves in the league. This season, he even made a high percentage of his shots around the rim \u2014 previously a wart in his profile. Is he aided by playing low-minute totals, often against other bench units? Perhaps. Still, his production this season was undeniable\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Officially, Day\u2019Ron Sharpe averaged 8.7\/6.7\/2.3 on 63.8% true shooting this season, playing 19 minutes a night. All of those numbers represent a career-high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">After leading the Nets to a comeback win against the Detroit Pistons on Saturday, Head Coach J.B. Bickerstaff was full of praise for Sharpe: \u201cHe\u2019s got great size, he plays extremely hard, he\u2019s physical on the interior, he doesn\u2019t back down \u2026 The thing that stands out when you watch the tape is just the effort that he puts forth. And when you mix that effort with his size and skill, he can create problems for you on both ends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As for Brooklyn\u2019s head coach, Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez spoke about the injury before the Nets took on the Atlanta Hawks on Thursday evening, saying, \u201cI\u2019m very happy with what I\u2019ve seen from Day\u2019Ron, the hard work he\u2019s put in and how much better he\u2019s gotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fern\u00e1ndez also added that he \u201cbelieved\u201d the injury occurred on Monday night against the Memphis Grizzlies, but that the thumb had been \u201cbothering\u201d Day\u2019Ron previously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Now, Day\u2019Ron Sharpe can look ahead to the summer, where the Brooklyn Nets have a team option for the second year of the two-year, $12.5 million contract they signed him to last summer. The team could, of course, choose to decline that option and hope to sign Sharpe to a long-term deal. Either way, #29 pick in the 2021 NBA Draft has progressed quite nicely since arriving in Brooklyn, though his fifth season in the NBA has come to a premature end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Nets have shut down Day\u2019Ron Sharpe, their 24-year-old back-up center, after he was diagnosed with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1262,98,100,355,99,7937,20470,1267,5235,13977,7070,22046,4570,9,24,4601,28406,63,66812],"class_list":["post-162016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-danny-wolf","tag-dayron-sharpe","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-egor-demin","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-grant-nelson","tag-grizzlies","tag-jordi-fernandez","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nic-claxton","tag-nikola-jokic","tag-nyc","tag-ulnar-collateral-ligament-tear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}